Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin

Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin

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Curtin, Jeremiah: - Jeremiah Curtin (6 September 1835 - 14 December 1906) was an American translator and folklorist. Harold B. Segel writes about Curtin's translations of works by Henryk Sienkiewicz: . . . Curtin was an indefatigable, diligent, and reasonably accurate translator, but he lacked any real feeling for language. Despite occasional lapses, the translations are acceptably faithful to the original, yet much of the time they are stilted and pedestrian. This results, at times, as [the American translator Nathan Haskell Dole had remarked [in 1895], from the location of the adverb in final position (even when this is not the Polish word order).[...] The inelasticity [that the Briton, Sir Edmund William Gosse spoke of [in 1897] is perhaps nowhere so clearly evident in Curtin's translations as in his insistence on rendering koniecznie as absolutely in all circumstances.

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ISBN 13	9780486224305
ISBN 10	0486224309
Title	Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
Author	Jeremiah Curtin
Series	Celtic Irish
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2000-02-01
Number of pages	245
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